The Big AI Questions Episode
We ask an A.I. consultant all our burning questions, like “Is China winning the A.I.
Today's Liberal News
The Hottest Restaurant Chain in America Has a Pitch Very Different From Others. People Are Absolutely Obsessed.
People will fly 16 hours to try it—and leave true converts.
Donald Trump Has Finally Wielded His Presidential Power for Good
RIP to one of air travel’s most cursed features.
Money Talks: The Path to Affordable Childcare
Yale researcher Martha Gimble explains The Budget Lab’s research into early childhood education and care policies.
2 unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania
The U.S. has reported more than 2,700 measles cases this year, the highest annual count since 1991.
‘The MMR vaccine is not a lethal vaccine,’ Mehmet Oz says
The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was asked three times to clarify claims made by President Donald Trump earlier this month.
Trump offered state Medicaid programs lower prices on weight-loss drugs. Most are rejecting the deal.
Blue and red states say accepting federal help to expand access to drugs like Wegovy for America’s poorest patients is too much of a drain on their budgets.
Democrats see political gain in Ohio’s health care pain
Surging costs and plummeting insurance coverage could give Ohio Democrats their best chance in years to win back power.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes?
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
Vance asks Mainers to vote Republican — as Trump ups the trade war with Canada
Vice President JD Vance’s visit marked his second to Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in four months.
“Most Americans Are Getting Poorer”: Robert Reich on Inequality & the Failures of Corporate Democrats
Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly attacked the former labor secretary under President Clinton, Robert Reich. Reich wrote in a post online that “Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this week the K-shaped economy — the widening economic gap between the rich and the poor — is ‘dead.’ Hogwash. Not only is the K-shaped economy very much alive, even CEOs are admitting it’s a problem.
Pennsylvania’s Public-Health Officials May Be Wrong About a Measles Death
Measles outbreaks around the country are already a disaster, but more bad news arrived on Tuesday. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro announced that two measles-associated deaths had occurred in Lancaster County. “These mark the first deaths related to measles within the Commonwealth in 35 years,” an accompanying statement declared.
Everything Is Called America Now
“If you think about it, we have a gulf, and we have a lake. Now all we need is an ocean.”
— President Trump, declaring Lake Ontario “Lake America” via executive order
The year is 2027. Gas costs $83 a gallon, and lettuce is at war with us. However, every location on every map is now labeled America. And everything else is named Trump. Sometimes for fun we hike from the Trump Airport to the other Trump Airport to the other Trump Airport.
Shapiro won’t say who died of measles. RFK Jr. is exploiting it.
The Health secretary suggested the Pennsylvania governor is hiding something about the deaths’ cause. Shapiro says he can’t say more.
A Turning Point in AI Writing
There was a time—a more innocent age—when you could read an op-ed in a major newspaper and confidently say that a human had written it. Hold on to the memory of that for as long as you can.
This week, after the billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller published an editorial in The Wall Street Journal criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, his onetime protégé, readers began to notice some familiar tics of AI writing.
Watching Tim Curry Have Fun Was the Most Fun Thing
As a performer, Tim Curry knew how to walk a fine line. Even his most sinister characters had an ironic sort of appeal, because watching Curry have fun is, in itself, fun. The actor, who died yesterday at age 80, acted with palpable glee: He could produce a real-life version of the Grinch’s ever-widening grin and could commit to sheer silliness in a way that freed him to twirl around in a cape while singing a gibberish song about Halloween.
Why I Am Right About AI
Editor’s note: This article was generated by Claude AI in the style of Paul Gigot, the Wall Street Journal opinion-page editor. Gigot recently published an AI-generated essay using the investor Stanley Druckenmiller’s byline. In the spirit of full disclosure, readers should know that Claude’s work was so banal that human Atlantic editors have added jokes. Human Atlantic copy editors have also fixed a variety of grammatical and style errors.
“Platform Extractivism”: Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies
Julián Posada’s upcoming book, titled Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence, is based on extensive fieldwork among data workers in Venezuela. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a hyperinflation crisis, entire communities in Venezuela depended on data work, says Posada, a professor at Yale University.
Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”
Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These workers “are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI because they are the secret ingredient of AI itself,” says sociologist Antonio Casilli, the author of Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation and co-writer of the documentary In the Belly of AI.
As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak
Prosecutors across 47 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories have announced a groundbreaking legal settlement with technology giant Meta over accusations that the social media company deliberately designed addictive products they knew to be harmful to children. Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is set to pay at least $12 billion and up to $17.1 billion in financial penalties, in addition to implementing design changes for underage users.
Will Kevin Warsh Squander a Huge Opportunity?
The new Fed chair will have the spotlight at the central bank’s high-profile conference in Jackson Hole. He should use it.
The Hottest Restaurant Chain in America Has a Pitch Very Different From Others. People Are Absolutely Obsessed.
People will fly 16 hours to try it—and leave true converts.
Donald Trump Has Finally Wielded His Presidential Power for Good
RIP to one of air travel’s most cursed features.
Money Talks: The Path to Affordable Childcare
Yale researcher Martha Gimble explains The Budget Lab’s research into early childhood education and care policies.